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January 31, 2017

Gratitude for January, 2017

January month of the New
Year is gone by the end of this day, leading us into the new month; and it’s a time
for me to review, reflect and count my blessings.

It has been a busy month, working both at my counseling
centre, addressing issues related to suicidal ideation, anxiety attack and few
adjustment issues of students, and managing household chores. In between also
managed to attend invitations for birthday/ dinner with close family friends, taking
time to connect with long distance friends and also helping my daughter to
prepare for the pre board exam to complete her class X.

I won the tombola full house :)

Variety is the spice of life- Potluck

I even had a good time,
going out along with my daughter went
for a picnic with a group of women from the YWCA (Young Women Christian
association, Secunderabad) to a farm 55 kms from city- a quiet place, beautiful
weather and lovely garden to move around and spend the day with; played tombola
and even won, sang songs, ate good food- a variety pooled up and enjoyed the
whole day, picked up some drum sticks from the farm, walked through the farm
admiring the vegetable garden and came back home happy and energised.

YWCA Picnic

Last Saturday was a working
day for me, so by the end of the day I am tired. I had my nephew come over home
and seeing me tired, agreed to purchase vegetables from the nearby weekly
market. I was happy that one work was
reduced, and I could rest a little and relax. What surprised me was that he
brought flowers along with vegetables; it’s been ages since I put some flowers
on my hair.

Flowers from the market

The flowers reminded me
of my mother who used to bring flowers every week, while bringing vegetables from
the market, as next day was a Sunday and my mother was very fond of dressing up
well. She used to get flowers for everyone and for me white jasmines, I loved
the smell and I used to put it to my hair.

Gift - from a friend

I am also glad that my
friend got a beautiful dress, very well tailored for me; I do not have that
particular colour combination, but felt very happy wearing that dress on a Sunday
to the church. It makes me grateful that I am surrounded by very thoughtful and
kind people in my life. It’s a blessing to have friends who not only display
kindness but they are there for you always.

I watched a lovely Movie
named Dangal (Hindi) with David and Dorothy; was very inspiring. It’s a real
story based on the life of Mahavir Singh Poghat who taught wrestling to his
daughters amidst a lot of criticism and challenges and both his daughters
represent the Olympics and bring honour the country. The movie was very
entertaining and had a powerful message to communicate specially to girl child.
For further information you may read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangal (film)

courtesy google

Fourth Sunday was our
regular prayer meeting; and I took the opportunity to relax and spend some
quiet time in the church- a moment to be with self and just thanking God for everything
that’s happening in my life.

I am glad to be
connected with my colleagues on whatsapp and together as a group we connected
with one of our staff who is now a cancer patient, hospitalised – the whole
group has been praying, connecting with his family and finding ways and means
to reach out to him and his family.

There are so many things to be grateful for,
good health, meaningful work, a family to support, good friends, academic
opportunities, inspiring bloggers and plenty of surprises to make changes and
be happy with everything around me.

I
am feeling so much motivated; after having made this post, hope it inspires you
to be grateful too. Thanks for reading, appreciate you!!

“Gratitude
is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of
bankruptcy” Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

6 comments:

This post has such a happy vibe to it. It's so wonderful that you had a great time with family and friends. I havent watched Dangal as yet. Hope to watch it sometimes soon. Here's wishing you a fantastic February, Genevive. Cheers ♥

January sounds like a wonderful month Genevive! What a wonderful supportive nephew to do the vegetable shopping and bring flowers! All the photos are so colourful and cheerful, I am smiling xx May February also be a great month!

Gratitude has kept me happy and healthy dear susan and yes I agree with you,its been a wonderful month, and rightly said small little help makes a huge difference, getting vegetables from the market may appear small -but when you are tired and this done,its so comforting and such a pleasant surprise of flowers, made me smile :) wish you the very best susan for the book, and hopefully I would read ... as I want to get back to reading and getting fit this year, glad to connect.

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I am Genevive Angela, journeying with gratitude, evolving myself and finding my purpose of existence here on earth. ... am grateful for everything that happens in my life and I live a life of gratitude :)